On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Alexis Huxley <ahuxley@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> You >> already have trouble believing an ethernet switch can have an IP >> address > > No; that that is possible was already clear to me. I probably worded that poorly. I guess I should have said "you prefer not to think of the ethernet switch having an IP address", at least that's the way I understand your explanation for not wanting to use the working and perfectly good configuration where the IP address is configured on interface br0 (which is I believe what 99% of other linux bridge users do). > >> Because dummy0 is now a port of the ethernet switch, not a device >> attached to the ethernet switch as you persist in claiming. > > Aaaaahhh! Yes, you are right, that that was exactly what I thought > 'addif' was doing. Many thanks for the clarification! Did you get a working configuration using veth as a virtual CAT5 cable? Or did you decide to use an address on br0 after all? > > Alexis > > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge > _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
